Guides to a Fertile Body
Simple, grounded steps to nourish your body without overwhelm.
These guides offer clear, practical support to help you build a nourished, fertile body in your own time.
Each one is designed to remove confusion and give you gentle steps you can take with confidence.
My hope is that you feel supported, steady, and more in tune with your body as you move through them.
What to eat on day of embryo transfer
Today is not a day to wing it. Nobody tells you how strange transfer day feels. You have been through scans, injections, egg collection, the phone calls about fertilisation, the grading updates. And now you are sitting in a waiting room with a full bladder, trying to...
CoQ10 and fertility: fueling your egg and sperm for pregnancy
When you’re trying to have a baby, both the egg and the sperm must have enough energy to function properly. That energy is produced by mitochondria — the cell’s batteries — which power egg maturation and sperm development long before pregnancy begins. Eggs require...
The Lesser-Known Nutrient That Shapes Egg and Sperm Cells
Choline is one of the nutrients responsible for building and maintaining the structure of egg and sperm cells. Food plays two distinct roles in the body. It provides energy to sustain daily life, and it supplies the structural materials that allow cells to form,...
Selenium: The Metabolic Mineral Powering Healthy Eggs and Sperm
Selenium and fertility are closely connected through the thyroid gland. Thyroid hormones shape the timing of ovulation, support the growth of the uterine lining, and influence the energy available for sperm development and movement. When thyroid signalling is...
PGT-A Testing: What the Regulator Assessment Actually Shows
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the UK's independent fertility regulator, is one of the few public bodies anywhere in the world that publishes plain-English evidence reviews on the optional tests, treatments and laboratory techniques offered...
Egg Quality After 40: Why Mitochondrial Energy Matters Before Conception
When you are over 40 and trying to grow your family, your age is often given as the reason your risk of a chromosome abnormality is higher. That explanation stops at the number, as though the number itself decided the outcome. It does not. Chromosome abnormality is a...
Advanced Maternal Age and Natural Fertility
Being over 40 increases the statistical risk that an egg will contain the wrong number of chromosomes. But age is not the only risk factor acting on that egg. During the months before ovulation, the egg develops within a metabolic and nutritional environment...
Lifestyle Factors That Directly Affect Your AMH
When you are trying to conceive, one of the numbers that will matter to you is your AMH. AMH is a hormone, it can go up as well as down and it does decline naturally with age. If you are trying to conceive naturally it has little or no impact on your chances because,...
Does Low AMH Mean You Need IVF Right Away?
If your AMH has come back low, you've probably already heard the shorthand version of what it means. A number, a raised eyebrow from your GP, and a referral letter that reads like the decision has already been made. You haven't asked to skip straight to IVF. You've...
Can I Get Pregnant Naturally With Low AMH?
AMH is often one of the first fertility checks made, mainly because it is a simple blood test, taken at any time of your menstrual cycle, rather than because of its accuracy for measuring your fertility You may be told that your egg reserve is low, time is running out...